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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

Baron de Montesquieu

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

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